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In this paper we give a comprehensive treatment of a two-penalty boundary obstacle problem for a divergence form elliptic operator, motivated by applications to fluid dynamics and thermics. Specifically, we prove existence, uniqueness and…

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We provide a new and simple proof based on Harnack's inequality to the Lipschitz continuity of the solutions of a class of free boundary problems.

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In this article we study solutions to the (interior) thin obstacle problem under low regularity assumptions on the coefficients, the obstacle and the underlying manifold. Combining the linearization method of Andersson \cite{An16} and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

In this paper we consider a quasilinear elliptic PDE, $\text{div} (A(x,u) \nabla u) =0$, where the underlying physical problem gives rise to a jump for the conductivity $A(x,u)$, across a level surface for $u$. Our analysis concerns…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Sunghan Kim , Ki-ahm Lee , Henrik Shahgholian

We prove uniform boundedness of certain boundary representations on appropriate fractional Sobolev spaces $W^{s,p}$ with $p>1$ for arbitrary Gromov hyperbolic groups. These are closed subspaces of $L^p$ and in particular Hilbert spaces in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Kevin Boucher , Jan Spakula

In this paper we classify the nonnegative global minimizers of the functional \[ J_F(u)=\int_\Omega F(|\nabla u|^2)+\lambda^2\chi_{\{u>0\}}, \] where $F$ satisfies some structural conditions and $\chi_D$ is the characteristic function of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Aram Karakhanyan

We study the regularity of minimizers of a multiphase vectorial Bernoulli free boundary problem. This problem consists in a minimization problem for the Bernoulli functional over families of Sobolev functions with disjoint supports and non…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Giovanni Siclari , Bozhidar Velichkov

In this paper, we study the regularity of the solutions of Maxwell's equations in a bounded domain. We consider several different types of low regularity assumptions to the coefficients which are all less than Lipschitz. We first develop a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Basang Tsering-Xiao , Wei Xiang

We prove partial regularity of suitable weak solutions to the Navier--Stokes equations at the boundary in irregular domains. In particular, we provide a criterion which yields continuity of the velocity field in a boundary point and obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Dominic Breit

We establish local interior Lipschitz continuity of the solutions of a class of free boundary elliptic problems assuming the coefficients of the equation of Dini mean oscillation in at least one direction. The novelty in this regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Abdeslem Lyaghfouri

We consider a Hamiltonian system of free boundary type, showing first uniform bounds and existence of solutions and of the free boundary. Then, for any smooth and bounded domain, we prove uniqueness of positive solutions in a suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Daniele Bartolucci , Yeyao Hu , Aleks Jevnikar , Juncheng Wei , Wen Yang

We prove forward and backward parabolic boundary Harnack principles for nonnegative solutions of the heat equation in the complements of thin parabolic Lipschitz sets given as subgraphs $E=\{(x,t): x_{n-1}\leq f(x'',t),x_n=0\}\subset…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Arshak Petrosyan , Wenhui shi

The hard phase model describes a relativistic barotropic irrotational fluid with sound speed equal to the speed of light. In this paper, we prove the local well-posedness for this model in the Minkowski background with free boundary.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Shuang Miao , Sohrab Shahshahani , Sijue Wu

In this article we initiate a systematic study of the well-posedness theory of the Einstein constraint equations on compact manifolds with boundary. This is an important problem in general relativity, and it is particularly important in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael Holst , Gantumur Tsogtgerel

We consider the one and the two obstacles problems for the nonlocal nonlinear anisotropic $g$-Laplacian $\mathcal{L}_g^s$, with $0<s<1$. We prove the strict T-monotonicity of $\mathcal{L}_g^s$ and we obtain the Lewy-Stampacchia…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Catharine W. K. Lo , José Francisco Rodrigues

In this article we continue our investigation of the thin obstacle problem with variable coefficients which was initiated in \cite{KRS14}, \cite{KRSI}. Using a partial Hodograph-Legendre transform and the implicit function theorem, we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-09 Herbert Koch , Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

We consider a nonlinear eigenvalue problem under Robin boundary conditions in a domain with (possibly noncompact) smooth boundary. The problem involves a weighted p-Laplacian operator and subcritical nonlinearities satisfying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-10 Kanishka Perera , Patrizia Pucci , Csaba Varga

We construct a monotonicity formula for a class of free boundary problems associated with the stationary points of the functional \[ J(u)=\int_\Omega F(|\nabla u|^2)+\mbox{meas}(\{u>0\}\cap \Omega), \] where $F$ is a density function…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Aram Karakhanyan

We study boundary value problems for bounded uniform domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$, with non-Lipschitz (and possibly fractal) boundaries. We prove Poincar\'e inequalities with trace terms and uniform constants for uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Michael Hinz , Anna Rozanova-Pierrat , Alexander Teplyaev

We consider almost minimizers to the one-phase energy functional and we prove their optimal Lipschitz regularity and partial regularity of their free boundary. These results were recently obtained by David and Toro, and David, Engelstein,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin